It seems that Gran Turismo 6 isn’t firing on all cylinders like the 5th installment did last time around. Word is that the game is only been able to sell a quarter of what it did last time around in North America in the same time frame.

From what the analysts at Cowen & Co are estimating, Gran Turismo 6 which was only a PlayStation 3 title has only been able to muster about 300,000 in sales compared to Gran Turismo 5 which sold 1,169,074 copies in the same time period last time around. Sony has not commented on or offered any sales figures Gran Turismo 6.

The decision to go ahead and release the 6th installment for the PlayStation 3 might in the end be viewed as a very bad decision by Sony. It should have instead gone head to head by bringing the 6th installment out for the PS4 and by doing so go head to head with Forza 5 on the Xbox One.

It does seem logical now that Sony will be pushing hard to get a new Gran Turismo release for the PlayStation 4 sooner, rather than later.

It is looking like Gran Turismo 6 for the PlayStation 3 will make its release date in December. Kazunori Yamauchi has confirmed that due to the very tight timeline, there is going to be a pretty big day one patch.

The patch will likely effect both offline and online players, so you will want to update the software for sure. Yamauchi also confirmed that they have a lot of things in the works for Gran Turismo 6 that will be released over the next 12 months after the game is released.

Apparently the developers are overflowing with stuff that the want to do, so that means that fans should expect a lot of cool stuff in the months ahead.

Sony has confirmed that the 6th installment of Gran Turismo will be released before Christmas as promised. It is scheduled for release on December 3rd in North America and December 6th in Europe. It will be a PlayStation 3 only release, and there are no plans to make it available or bring it to PlayStation 4 at this time, but that could change of course.

The big news with the release of Gran Turismo 6 is the included concept cars. Some of these concept cars are real and others are just concepts. Sony also confirmed that a Gran Turismo film is in development, but that it is inspired by the GT franchise and no additional details were available at this time.

Since there will be no Gran Turismo for the PlayStation 4, Sony’s new title DriveClub will be the big racing title for the PlayStation 4 at release. While it is expected that a a Gran Turismo title is in development for the PlayStation 4, Sony has released no details on when it might be expected to arrive, but it could be 2015 before it happens according to one source we spoke with.

Sony will reveal Gran Turismo 6 sometime in the weeks ahead. The Polyphony Digital-developed title was confirmed as in development back in 2010 when Kazunori Yamauchi, the series creator, spoke about it openly in an interview.

The interesting thing is that the title will apparently be for the PlayStation 3, despite the fact that the PlayStation 4 is preparing to launch this holiday season. The fact that Gran Turismo 6 will be a PS3 release seems to be backed by a listing on online retailer, Newegg.com, who lists the PS3 version as available for pre-order.

No information on a release date is known, but it seems likely that the game could arrive as soon as this holiday season.